Michoacan church shootout

The Michoacan church shootout occurred in 2004 when a hit squad of Sinaloa Cartel gunmen assaulted the Alianza Misionera de Nazareno church in the Mexican state of Michoacan, killing several La Familia Michoacana gangsters. The gunmen proceeded to corner and capture the LFM boss and church leader, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez, who was later taken to El Chapo and tortured in an attempt to force him to betray the Gulf Cartel and join El Chapo's drug cartel federation. Moreno refused to join, even as he watched his three drug producers be shot dead in front of him, as he continued to quote the Bible and say that he would not betray his allies, and that El Chapo wrongly thought that he was more powerful than God. However, he ultimately joined the federation after seeing that El Chapo had put aside his desire for revenge and allied with his brother's murderer, Vicente Carrillo Fuentes; the church shootout ironically led to Moreno siding with the attackers during the federation's war with the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas.